Tomonari Nishikawa
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Sketch Films #1-5 + Clear Blue Sky
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that Tomonari Nishikawa’s Super 8 Sketch Film series (2005-2007) is now available. “As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa explains, “I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manhattan One Two Three Four
Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014, 3 minutes, b&w, silent, digital file) “A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3. All edited in-camera and hand-processed afterwards. This film was commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for the […]
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The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street @ Shapeshifters Cinema, March 13, 2026
The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street 7pm Friday, March 13, 2026 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland Co-presented by Canyon Cinema Admission: $14 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members Event tickets here NYC-based filmmaker Mark Street presents a program of recent short films rooted in the tradition of street photography. These films toggle between representation and abstraction […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Lumphini 2552 (35mm)
Lumphini 2552 (2009, 3 minutes, b&w, sound, 35mm) This work was shot with a still camera in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The home-developed film projects the organic patterns present in the memorial park onto the screen, creating a rhythmic yet emotional tempo. At the same time, the images captured by the still camera are […]
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Now Available: Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023, 6 min, color, sound, 16mm or digital file) The visual shows the alternation of the shots of fireworks filmed at a summer festival in Japan, producing a distinctive yet organic rhythm, as well as a gap in time between the visual and sound, both of which are […]
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Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space @ YBCA, November 1-30, 2023
Throughout the month of November, as part of YBCA’s Bay Area Now 9 triennial exhibition, you can experience Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space. This selection of films from the Canyon Cinema collection traces six decades of experimental filmmaking in the Bay Area; from Canyon’s original home in the East Bay hamlet of Canyon, California, to San Francisco’s frenetic […]
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3/14/2023 – Dispersed Renderings: A Salon with Patricia Ledesma Villon
Dispersed Renderings: A selection of Bay Area works from the Canyon Cinema collection Tuesday, March 14, 2023 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)16 Sherman Street, San Francisco Curated by Patricia Ledesma Villon Familiar sights and inhabitants materialize and depart from the region known as the San Francisco Bay Area; we start anew while certain constants remain. Connections […]
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Now Available on 16mm: 45 7 Broadway (Nishikawa, 2013)
Tomonari Nishikawa’s 45 7 Broadway is now available! Tomonari Nishikawa | 2013 | 5 minutes | COLOR | SOUND | 16mm This is about Times Square, the noises and movements at this most well-known intersection. The film was shot on black and white films through color filters, red, green, and blue, then shots were optically […]
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